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Funding

    Startups
    'Startups need to have an appetite for risk - failure is just another part of the process'
    Bill McKiernan
    12 Jun 2017
    70
    cashed up
    Dublin money-sharing startup Plynk has raised €25m to roll out across Europe
    8 Jun 2017
    375
    Funding
    After a year of 'awful pitches', a Pat Phelan-backed fund for Irish startups has shut
    8 Jun 2017
    674
    pointy
    'There was a period after we sold to Google when I thought I'd never do that again'
    Mark Cummins
    8 Jun 2017
    906
    gloves are off
    Sport Ireland issue Irish boxing with funding cut threat
    7 Jun 2017
    2.5k
    5
    Financial Services
    Dublin money-sharing startup Plynk has raised €25m to roll out across Europe
    7 Jun 2017
    1.9k
    Startups
    After a year of 'awful pitches', a Pat Phelan-backed fund for Irish startups has shut
    5 Jun 2017
    3.1k
    insights
    'There was a period after we sold to Google when I thought I'd never do that again'
    Mark Cummins
    2 Jun 2017
    949
    Health
    Limerick medtech firm Altratech has raised millions to fund its quick-diagnosis device
    1 Jun 2017
    343
    Startups
    An Ireland-based man wants to crowdfund a Harry Potter pub complete with 'magic' wands
    31 May 2017
    1.3k
    irish nhs
    'A watershed moment': TDs have come up with a plan to radically change the healthcare system
    30 May 2017
    35.1k
    47
    Policy
    A state scheme to help fight the 'blight' of late payments is struggling for sign-ups
    29 May 2017
    233
    Startups
    After a year under wraps, an Irish startup backed by heavy-hitters is ready to unseat LinkedIn
    28 May 2017
    20.6k
    11
    Startups
    A decade after selling his first company, EntAnon's head just quit - to start another one
    25 May 2017
    358
    cohort
    After a year under wraps, an Irish startup backed by heavy-hitters is ready to unseat LinkedIn
    25 May 2017
    822
    Funding
    Ireland's largest crowd lender has been given the green light to trade in the UK
    22 May 2017
    432
    Startups
    After a year under wraps, an Irish startup backed by heavy-hitters is ready to unseat LinkedIn
    21 May 2017
    3.1k
    Startups
    A decade after selling his first company, EntAnon's head just quit - to start another one
    20 May 2017
    1.1k
    Sugru
    Investors have piled in to back this Irish woman's 'space-age Play-Doh'
    18 May 2017
    677
    1
    mainstay medical
    'I've had two great successes, two modest successes and one catastrophe'
    Peter Crosby
    18 May 2017
    111
    conor divine
    'I sold over £100m worth of property in 2006. Then MS wiped me out for four years'
    Conor Devine
    18 May 2017
    352
    Policy
    A long-awaited tax break to kick-start investment in young firms has finally been introduced
    17 May 2017
    385
    insights
    'I sold over £100m worth of property in 2006. Then MS wiped me out for four years'
    Conor Devine
    16 May 2017
    183
    Funding
    Investors have piled in to back this Irish woman's 'space-age Play-Doh'
    15 May 2017
    1.6k
    Ransomware
    Ibec calls for more funding to protect businesses following cyber attack
    14 May 2017
    6.4k
    24
    Funding
    A Dublin startup is trying to stop millennial workers from quickly switching jobs
    14 May 2017
    33.3k
    38
    Startups
    'Now's the best time to start a company because everyone else is scared s**tless'
    13 May 2017
    11.2k
    6
    insights
    'I've had two great successes, two modest successes and one catastrophe'
    Peter Crosby
    12 May 2017
    428
    engagesmith
    A Dublin startup is trying to stop millennial workers from quickly switching jobs
    11 May 2017
    867
    1
    Dylan Collins
    'Now's the best time to start a company because everyone else is scared s**tless'
    11 May 2017
    421
    Startups
    'Now's the best time to start a company because everyone else is scared s**tless'
    11 May 2017
    706
    Funding
    Irish startup funding is expected to come back to Earth after a record-breaking 2016
    10 May 2017
    247
    Mental Health
    'I'm surprised that the leader of our country had the neck to walk in Darkness Into Light'
    9 May 2017
    38.8k
    68
    Funding
    A Dublin startup is trying to stop millennial workers from quickly switching jobs
    9 May 2017
    1.7k
    Funding
    Why companies have turned away from Ireland's stock exchange
    7 May 2017
    14.4k
    6
    insights
    Why a business with cash to spare shouldn't just park it in the bank
    Cormac Kelleher
    6 May 2017
    74
    Funding
    HSE spent almost €6 million sending 30 children abroad for treatment that's available here
    5 May 2017
    10.9k
    24
    no ipos
    Why companies have turned away from Ireland's stock exchange
    4 May 2017
    605
    1
    Sad
    No money for the border wall after last-minute spending deal agreed in US
    1 May 2017
    20.1k
    23
    Funding
    Why companies have turned away from Ireland's stock exchange
    30 Apr 2017
    1.3k
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